Music Questions

[who]

1. How many semitones in a scale?

2. What is the number of Mozart's lasy symphony?

[MarkRae]

> How many semitones in a scale?

12 in the Western world


> lasy

Do you mean last?

[brian j john]

Mozart's last symphony, the Jupiter Symphony (No. 41),

[MarkRae]

http://www.aam.co.uk/index.htm

[boxtops]

1 is really difficult as there are so many types of scales.... but there are 12 semitones in an octave in Western types of music, do you think that it what the question means?

2 - look at this link - I would have said 41, but perhaps not!
http://www.aam.co.uk/index.htm

[boxtops]

snap, markrae.

[mike11111]

If you include both the first and last notes of an octave then there are 13.

[MarkRae]

> If you include both the first and last notes of an octave then there are 13.

But why would anyone do that...?

[gen2]

>But why would anyone do that...? <

because the word octave suggests EIGHT and to count 8, you have to count the base note (doh) twice - 8 notes, 7 intervals.

[MarkRae]

No, the word octave suggests that it's based on base 8, not that it contains 8 elements.

By that argument, a decade contains 11 years...

[MarkRae]

http://www.skytopia.com/project/scale.html